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Fear of Flowers

You may recall that I had some trouble growing flowers in previous years. This year I committed myself to it and wala! It's been fun, beautiful beyond words and now I'm hooked. These pink and peach creme colored flowers just came up, I was delighted. Cant remember what they're called though. Anyone? And each year I grow about 10 or more of the hot pink globe amaranth. The plant is much like a bush, comes in late summer and remains with flowers through late fall. Then the flowers can be dried, they maintain that hot pink color all winter. I suspect one can extract a dye from it too.

2 comments:

Karen said...

Zinnias...well, at least two of the three. Nice growing.

Starsquid said...

Karen beat me to it.

The other one is familiar but I can't remember the name.